Posted on 05/19/2022 2:59:20 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - Special counsel John Durham has used his first trial as a vehicle to air some of the Hillary Clinton campaign's dirty laundry, but that was derailed Wednesday when the campaign's top lawyer, Marc Elias, promptly used his testimony to slam Donald Trump and the FBI for how they responded to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Durham's case against a different Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is the first courtroom test of his three-year probe into potential misconduct in the FBI's early Trump-Russia investigation. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting where he passed along a tip about Trump's potential ties to a Russian bank.
To make his case, Durham has relied on witnesses unlikely to be sympathetic to his inquiry, which has been celebrated by Trump and right-wing commentators. One of those witnesses on Wednesday was Elias, a well-known election attorney who has been a senior lawyer for the past five Democratic presidential candidates and was Clinton's general counsel in 2016.
Elias called Trump a "bully" and excoriated Trump's reaction to the Russian hacks and leaks of Democratic National Committee emails, which rocked the party convention in July 2016 by driving a wedge between supporters of Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders at a pivotal moment.
"There was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public," Elias said, adding that he believed the campaign was under attack. "And instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said, 'I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails ... and release them.'"
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"You know that thing that didn't happen? Well, I don't like how you responded to it."
Spin, spin, and more spin.
Elias should have been locked up years ago for his part in Russiagate and the 2016 presidential election.
instead, he was able to interfere again in the 2020 election steal, so no wonder he’s brazen enough to try to go on the attack as he has here.
Elias should have been locked up years ago for his part in Russiagate and the 2016 presidential election.
instead, he was able to interfere again in the 2020 election steal, so no wonder he’s brazen enough to try to go on the attack as he has here.
apologies for accidental double post.
He should wipe those crocodile tears... Like with a cloth.
Durham should have went with conspiracy charges and marched them all in at the same time. Don’t leave them an out.
All this circus for one low level peon and one charge?
When is it Hillary's turn?
Posting your usual deranged far left nonsense from the notorious CNN? Yup.
Realilty: There was NO Russian “interference” in 2016 elections.
Excuse me....Trump wasn’t in office in 2016. If you’ve got complaints about that election and/or any supposed “Russian interference” in it, take it up with Obama.
This was starting to look like it might be going somewhere. Then we find out the judge is married to Lisa Page’s lawyer. The same old news, the same old (the fix is in) blues again.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/13/reminder-judge-in-sussmann-trial-is-married-to-lisa-pages-lawyer/
Durham, I hope has some reason to allow Elias to spout like that, music to CNN’s ears, because it certainly sounds irrelevant to the case. Elias must be the Nightingale singing to the filthy , Democrat hearts of the jurors.
It wasn’t the Russians. It was a DNC staffer.
Nobody forced Hillary to host a private email server for government business. That was her own doing. Then she ordered the execution style hit on Seth Rich for disclosing the content of those emails. As usual, democrats revise history thinking these events occurred 500 years ago and nobody alive today will remember how it really happened. Typical Rat playbook.
https://www.plaintruth.com/the_plain_truth/2017/05/was-seth-rich-murdered-by-the-clintons.html
Interesting link.
Yup, and the grand jury will eat it up, love every spoonful and crap out a no indictment.
Deny, Deny, Deny. Can’t ever admit the lie even when, especially when confronted by irrefutable evidence.
I would have expected an objection to comments about the DNC server having been hacked by the Russians, since that was never proven and was more likely an internal transfer of data.
Without the objection to this testimony, however irrelevant to the case, does it not become an uncontested “fact” which can later be used against the prosecution? ? ?
Elias belongs in prison for all that he has done.
He set up lawyer groups across the country to contest the 2020 election.
IIRC, he was involved in Russia, Russia, Russia.
Etc.
A DC jury full of democRATS; Durham has his hands full.
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